onions - 2025 Penn Bowl - Buzzpoints App

Question

Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga cornered the market for this food by buying so many futures that they controlled 98% of them in Chicago. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this food that titles a "Futures Act" that banned the trading of contracts on them, as well as box office receipts, after 30 million pounds of them were shipped and stored.

ANSWER: onions [accept Onion Futures Act]

[10e] Though lobbyist E. B. Harris called it "burning down the barn to find a suspected rat," the Onion Futures Act was signed anyway by this president in 1958. This president created the Interstate Highway System.

ANSWER: Dwight D. Eisenhower [or Dwight David Eisenhower]

[10h] The Onion Futures Act was sponsored by this politician, who served as House Minority leader from 1965 to 1973. This politician's life was spared by Oliver Sipple.

ANSWER: Gerald Ford [or Gerald Rudolph Ford; or Leslie Lynch King, Jr.]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	17.14	86%	57%	29%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	14.44	100%	33%	11%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Harvard	Brown	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	CWRU	10	10	10	30
Pittsburgh	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Maryland C	10	10	10	30
JHU A	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
John Jay	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Mount Sinai	JHU B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Swarthmore	0	10	10	20
Illinois	Indiana	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	UChicago C	10	10	10	30
UChicago B	Northwestern A	0	10	0	10
rusty shackleford	abg academy	0	10	0	10
McGill Fartlets	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	10	10	0	20
Ottawa 67s	Carleton A	10	10	10	30
#OpenToBuzz	Queen's is monitoring the situation	0	10	0	10
Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	Toronto G	0	10	0	10
Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	Toronto E	10	10	0	20
Toronto Operation PBSuccess	McGill B	0	10	0	10
Waterloo you are crooked	Guelph perfomative male competition	10	0	10	20
MIT A	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	10	10	10	30
MIT B	Brandeis	10	10	0	20
Free Win	The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	0	10	0	10
In Search of Lost Clues	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley C	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
Hail to the Sheaf	1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	10	10	0	20
To buzz is to be perceived	Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	0	10	0	10
Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	question mark	0	10	0	10
Washed Scrubs	Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	0	10	0	10
Knorr Stock Clue	Chimp Brisket	0	10	0	10
Galactic Ombudsmen	Coughing Baby	10	10	0	20
Of Mice and Penn	Bristold	0	10	0	10
The Bit and the Penndulum	Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	10	10	0	20
Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	0	10	10	20
UNC B	Planck Sinatra	10	10	0	20
VT B	UNC A	0	10	0	10
VT A	Wise Duke	10	10	10	30
Yale	RIT	0	10	0	10